Self-driving cars (self-driving cars; Self-driving car, also known as driverless car, computer-driven car, or wheeled mobile robot, is a kind of intelligent car that realizes unmanned driving through computer system. It has a history of several decades in the 20th century. At the beginning of the 20th century, it showed a trend towards practicality.
Self-driving cars rely on the cooperation of artificial intelligence, visual computing, radar, monitoring equipment and global positioning system, so that computers can automatically and safely operate motor vehicles without any human initiative.
Driverless car is a kind of intelligent car, also known as wheeled mobile robot, which mainly relies on the intelligent driver with computer system in the car to achieve the purpose of unmanned driving.
According to Thomson Reuters's latest report on intellectual property and technology, from 20 10 to 20 15, there are more than 22,000 invention patents related to automobile driverless technology, and in this process, some enterprises have emerged and become industry leaders in this field.
2065438+September 2009, the first batch of L4-class self-driving passenger cars jointly built by Baidu and FAW-Hongqi EV was mass-produced in China, and five Beijing self-driving road test licenses were obtained.
On September 22nd, the National Intelligent Networked Automobile (Wuhan) Test Demonstration Zone was officially unveiled, and companies such as Baidu, Liang Hai Technology and Deep Blue Technology obtained the world's first commercial license for self-driving cars. 20 19 On September 26th, Baidu announced in Changsha that Robotaxi, a self-driving taxi fleet, was officially put into trial operation.